sepia edges

you want to see me
as nympho, orchid splay, bee stung
instead: tattered dandelion in fish
nets drooping over the vase on the counter.
all the metaphors fall into the hanged mans eye,
hemp ropes and partial birth aborted.

try to say agape with wounds where light spills out.
attempt at black star in white noise sky.

inversion of mirrors
and slightly off
color smoke. the man on the ringside porch wearing
alcohol and death , calmed by the taste of a slice
of sexual mis-union. the rub into shouldn't be. how he

in his daily suit would fuck you himself
rather than have you fuck me. but he'll watch.
he'll be happy to watch.